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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magus Coeruleus" data-source="post: 1059989" data-attributes="member: 1704">The sneak attack description in the rogue section doesn't really specify what kinds of attacks can and can't count as sneak attacks, which could mean that it's intended to work with anything.  Does anyone know of anything that more explicitly allows this?I'm concerned about touch attacks letting you get sneak attack damage.  Isn't the point of a touch attack that you don't need to hit a specific (i.e. vulnerable) part of the creature, but just to hit it at all for the spell to work?  (For instance, you can hit someone right on the shield and the spell still works.)  And isn't the point of a sneak attack that you strike "a vital spot" with "deadly accuracy" (PHB 30)?  These seem somewhat incompatible.  I would think that you'd need to make a normal melee or ranged attack if you wanted to target a vital spot for sneak attack damage, just as you need to do if you want to get unarmed strike damage when attacking with a touch range spell.  This is different from critical hits (which you can definitely be done with a touch attack) because a critical hit is based not on special circumstances like a sneak attack is, but on a random chance of hitting a vital spot.</blockquote>